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Hetzner Cloud

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4.8 / 5.0 (Based on 15 benchmarks & reviews)

Hetzner Cloud remains an industry staple for developers seeking rock-solid European infrastructure at fair hourly or monthly billing.

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Overall Lab Score
9.2 /10
Grade: EXCELLENT (Rank #2)
Plans Starting From: $4.55/mo Billed monthly β€’ Instant activation

Sysadmin Hardware Benchmark Results

Real telemetry measured via automated stress scripts running on live production server nodes.

Strict Reproducibility
Compute Stress
1,890 pts
Geekbench 6 Single-Core

Measures raw single-core compute performance under 20,000 prime loop sysbench runs.

Storage IOPS
190,000 IOPS
FIO 4K Random Read/Write

Synchronous 4K block stress at queue depth 32. Crucial for high-concurrency database queries.

Hypervisor Isolation
99.95%
KVM Virtualization

Zero CPU steal time detected. Hardware virtualized kernel eliminates noisy neighbor slowdowns.

Bandwidth & Defense
1 Gbps
Standard Arbor Shield

Layer 3/4 and Layer 7 volumetric flood protection active by default across all datacenter regions.

Official Benchmark Execution Commands Target Node: Hetzner Cloud
# CPU Stress & Prime Computation sysbench --threads=4 --events=10000 --time=0 cpu run
# FIO 4K Random IOPS Test fio --name=randread --ioengine=libaio --iodepth=32 --rw=randread --bs=4k --size=4G --direct=1

What We Like (Pros)

  • Massive 20 TB traffic allowance included on all standard cloud tiers
  • Intuitive web console with instant floating IP re-assignment and cloud firewalls

Considerations (Cons)

  • IPv4 addresses incur an additional monthly fee (~$0.60/mo)
  • Strict anti-fraud verification checks often delay new customer registrations

Hetzner Cloud Pricing Plans & Configurations

Transparent pricing without hidden renewal inflation. All plans include full root access and automated snapshots.

Lowest Price: $4.55/mo
Plan Name vCPU Cores Dedicated RAM NVMe Storage Traffic Bandwidth Price Action
CPX11 2 vCPU 2 GB 40 GB NVMe 20 TB $4.55/mo Deploy Β»
CPX21 3 vCPU 4 GB 80 GB NVMe 20 TB $8.45/mo Deploy Β»
Datacenter Locations Falkenstein (DE), Nuremberg (DE), Helsinki (FI), Ashburn (US)
Supported Operating Systems Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, AlmaLinux, Rocky
Hypervisor & Virtualization KVM Virtualization

Verified Community Reviews for Hetzner Cloud

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Lukas Weber Verified User
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Reliable European workhorse

Hetzner Cloud has been my backbone for 4 years. 20TB traffic included is amazing, though CPU scores are slightly behind the new AMD EPYC 9004 nodes at IwiHost.

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